Dr. Daniel Irrgang

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21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C.5.322
Fon +49.4131.677-2714, daniel.irrgang@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professorship of Digital Cultures

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Vita

Daniel Irrgang is a scholar in media, art, and culture with a focus on the enactment of knowledge, e.g., in exhibitions, diagrammatic depictions, or algorithmic practices in art and design. His current focus in research and teaching is on environmental humanities, particularly on artistic or aesthetic approaches towards climate science representation, as well as on technological and ideological structures of digital inequalities.

Since October 2025 he is a postdoctoral researcher within the ‘Climate Futures in Digital Cultures’ research section of the wider program ‘Embracing Transformation’ at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where he is affiliated with the Center for Digital Cultures and the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM). Daniel is also an associated researcher with the ‘Design, Diversity und New Commons’ section at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin.

For the 2024/25 winter term he was visiting professor at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM), Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where he represented the chair for Media Aesthetics and Media Technology. 

Previously, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre Art as Forum, where he conducted research on Bruno Latour’s and Peter Weibel’s concept of ‘Thought Exhibition’ (EU Horizon 2020, grant agreement no. 101028379).

At the Weizenbaum Institute he was, until August 2022, senior researcher and deputy head of the Berlin University of the Artsresearch group ‘Inequality and Digital Sovereignty’ (now: ‘Design, Diversity, and New Commons‘).

Daniel Irrgang completed his doctorate at the University of the Arts Berlin at the Chair of Media Theory/Archaeology of Media on diagrammatics and expanded mind theories. His research topics include visual representations of information from a media theory, art studies, and cognitive science perspective; historiographies and archaeologies of art and media; critical investigations into the premises of human-computer interaction and its roots in Californian Ideology; investigative practices in the field of  art and technology; aesthetics of computer-generated imagery; exhibition and curatorial concepts; and epistemological problems in connection with corporeality and media technology.

From January 2018 to November 2019, Daniel coordinated the research seminar “Critical Zones” with Bruno Latour at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. He has contributed to the exhibition catalogue (MIT Press) and edited the research section of the ZKM exhibition website.
From May 2016 to July 2019 he was research associate in the Media Philosophy and Art Studies section and between May 2016 and March 2018 assistant to the rector at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. From 2013 to 2016 he was a research associate at the Chair of Media Theory (Siegfried Zielinski) at the Institute for Time-Based Media and supervisor at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin University of the Arts.

Daniel Irrgang is the author and editor of numerous books and paperson the history and theory of media, communication and the arts. Together with Florian Hadler and Alice Soiné, he is also editor of the journal Interface Critique and, together with Siegfried Zielinski and Marcel René Marburger, of the book series International Flusser Lectures.  Additionally, he has organised various conferences and other events as well as (co-)curated exhibitions at venues such as the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Einstein Center Digital Future, and the Berlin Academy of Arts.

From 2008 to 2016, Daniel was a founding member of the communication agency AFKM in Berlin.

Projects

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Interface Critique 5: Conversing the Book
    Daniel Irrgang (Editor) , Alice Soiné (Editor) , Florian Hadler (Editor) , Lindsey Drury (Editor) , Nina Tolksdorf (Editor) , 2025 , 339 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  2. Artnodes. Journal on Art, Science and Technology 34: Special Issue: Materiology and Variantology: invitation to dialogue
    Daniel Irrgang (Editor) , Siegfried Zielinski (Editor) , 2024

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  3. Practicing Sovereignty Interventions for Open Digital Futures
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , Bianca Herlo (Author) , 2023 2 ed.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  4. 媒介思维的谱系 – Zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens
    Daniel Irrgang (Editor) , Siegfried Zielinski (Editor) , Florian Hadler (Editor) , 2023 , 650 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  5. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society 3/1 (2023): Special issue on the Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty – Interventions for Open Digital Futures
    Daniel Irrgang (Editor) , Bianca Herlo (Editor) , Martin Krzywdzinski (Editor) , 2023

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. Critical Zones and Thought Exhibitions
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , 19.07.2025 , in: Spool, 12, 2 , p. 7-18 , 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. A Cartogram of Vilém Flusser’s Nomadism
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , Clemens Jahn (Illustrator) , 01.01.2025 , in: Flusser Studies, 2025, 40 , p. 1-3 , 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  3. NODE “MATERIOLOGY AND VARIANTOLOGY: INVITATION TO DIALOGUE”
    Siegfried Zielinski (Author) , Daniel Irrgang (Author) , 01.07.2024 , in: Artnodes, 2024, 34 , p. 1-3 , 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Projective Imagination: Vilém Flusser’s Concept of the Technical Image
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , 01.12.2023 , in: Theory, Culture and Society, 40, 7-8 , p. 73-90 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Nonlinearity, Multilinearity, Simultaneity: Notes on Epistemological Structures
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , Florian Hadler (Author) , Daniel Irrgang (Author) , Florian Hadler (Author) , 01.01.2021 , in: Interactive Film & Media Journal, 1, 2 , p. 5-32 , 28 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste, 1972, Louis Bec
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , Anita Jóri (Author) , 01.01.2025 , p. 61 , 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

  2. Telehor, 1919, Dénes von Mihály
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , 01.01.2025 , p. 153 , 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

  3. Project of Music for Magnetic Tape: Imaginary Landscape No. 5, 1952/53, John Cage
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , 01.01.2025 , p. 53 , 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

  4. Elisabeth von Samsonow: Museum des Anfangs. Mädchen – Pferd – Baum. Verlag Sonderzahl Wien
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , 01.01.2024

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Critical Reviews › Research

  5. Zona Crítica, o el exterior imposible/Critical zone, or: the impossible outside
    Daniel Irrgang (Author) , 01.01.2023 Santiago de Chile , p. 52-57 , 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

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Activities

  1. On critical approaches to GenAI in art and aesthetics
    Daniel Irrgang (Speaker) , Mick With Berland (Speaker) , Tanya Ravn Ag (Coauthor)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Sensitive Tree Infrastructures: Artistic Representations of Critical Zone Science
    Daniel Irrgang (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  3. Critical Zones and Thought Exhibitions
    Daniel Irrgang (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  4. Critical Zone/s: Infrastructures and Aesthetics of Climate Change Research
    Daniel Irrgang (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  5. Critical Zone(s) Observatories: Modeling Infrastructures of Climate Science in the Art Museum
    Daniel Irrgang (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

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Press / Media

Prizes

  1. Postdoctoral Fellowships – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
    Daniel Irrgang (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Courses